Jamaican Woman Found With Large Cocaine Stash At Gatwick Airport

15/04/2012 07:09
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Updated
14 June 2012

PA

Cocaine worth almost half a million pounds has been seized at an airport by UK Border Force officers.

Officials working for the UK Border Agency at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex found 12 kilos of the class A drug when they searched a woman travelling from Kingston, Jamaica, with her three children on Friday morning.

Officers found cocaine in a number of items the woman was carrying, including a cosmetic paste, a UK Border Agency spokesman said.

He added that the woman was interviewed and charged with an importation offence. She has been remanded in custody and is awaiting a court appearance, he said.